The new life growing within a woman unprepared for its presence and the impending end of her elderly patient's well-lived life form an uncommon bond through which each finds strength to embrace the futures they face.
Ivy befriends her nursing home patient, Anna, refusing to believe Anna is as eccentric and senile as the other staff members presume. As Ivy struggles to hide her pregnancy from the baby's father (a soldier stationed in Korea at the height of the conflict), Anna unfolds the story of her life as a young woman in the late eighteen-hundreds. Anna's compelling memoirs of raw rejection, both natural and man-made disasters, the shock of her own human frailty, and the challenges of teaching God's ways to the broken, embittered, and frightened girls who sought refuge in her Morning Glory Home for Unwed Mothers trace God's imprint and offer Ivy what she craves. Faith and forgiveness. As Ivy's personal crisis escalates, she finds wisdom in the stories Anna tells--wisdom, hope, and courage.
Women's fiction in process
